If its running alright, fedora could have added its own mysql startup script and not removed the old redhat one. Do an ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ |grep mysql if it returns more than one file then that is the case, if not then I dont really know what the problem could be. Regards, Adam Bowns http://www.bowns.co.uk On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:43, Ryan Rothert wrote: > After an upgrade of a RH9 box to Fedora I get this when trying to start > MySQL. > > # /etc/init.d/mysqld start > Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. > Starting MySQL: [FAILED] > > However, even though the script says it FAILED, mysql seems to be running > just fine. > > > Any thoughts on howto correct this? > Thanks, > > Ryan Rothert > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list